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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 544894" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>My laziness comment was not aimed at him not playing when he's not fit that would be ridiculous beyond belief, it's aimed at him not tying this up definitely before this came up assuming he was free to - although possibly naive is a better word if he was gambling his entire future plans to stay fit enough to be a professional rugby player until the age of 35. Also, if this isn't him using the press to try and lean on the Border Agency (and fair play if he is), its arguably lazy of him to go "Oh yeah well I'd like to stay but I'm not going to bother with this appeal process because I hate red tape". I hate red tape too but its not exactly the bottomless pits of devotion there.</p><p></p><p>However, closer inspection reveals that to apply for British citizenship, you must be free of immigration time limits i.e. permanent residency, and that's something he doesn't have. That's 10 years of legal stay and 5 on a top sportsman's work permit, I don't know which he was working off but either way he couldn't have applied without that, which is a bummer. And presumably neither he or his wife have a British grandparent or they'd have done that already. So, fair enough, not his fault. Can't apply.</p><p></p><p>Although, as noted, he can appeal - I don't know the details, I only really know this because Fourie said so. And if he's choosing not to appeal, my sympathy is fairly limited.</p><p></p><p>edit: Except apparently Leeds got him on a work permit 1 type, presumably in 2007, and then Sale put him on a type 2 work permit when he moved... had he been on either he'd have done five years and could have already applied for permanent residency. You'd have thought an appeal on terms of aggregating the two would have legs.</p><p></p><p>There's some interesting questions about Sale's role in this imo.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 544894, member: 42330"] My laziness comment was not aimed at him not playing when he's not fit that would be ridiculous beyond belief, it's aimed at him not tying this up definitely before this came up assuming he was free to - although possibly naive is a better word if he was gambling his entire future plans to stay fit enough to be a professional rugby player until the age of 35. Also, if this isn't him using the press to try and lean on the Border Agency (and fair play if he is), its arguably lazy of him to go "Oh yeah well I'd like to stay but I'm not going to bother with this appeal process because I hate red tape". I hate red tape too but its not exactly the bottomless pits of devotion there. However, closer inspection reveals that to apply for British citizenship, you must be free of immigration time limits i.e. permanent residency, and that's something he doesn't have. That's 10 years of legal stay and 5 on a top sportsman's work permit, I don't know which he was working off but either way he couldn't have applied without that, which is a bummer. And presumably neither he or his wife have a British grandparent or they'd have done that already. So, fair enough, not his fault. Can't apply. Although, as noted, he can appeal - I don't know the details, I only really know this because Fourie said so. And if he's choosing not to appeal, my sympathy is fairly limited. edit: Except apparently Leeds got him on a work permit 1 type, presumably in 2007, and then Sale put him on a type 2 work permit when he moved... had he been on either he'd have done five years and could have already applied for permanent residency. You'd have thought an appeal on terms of aggregating the two would have legs. There's some interesting questions about Sale's role in this imo. [/QUOTE]
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